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a Roman officer — often thought of as the leader of 100 soldiers- The senior centurions were called for a council of war.
centurions = a Roman officer — often thought of as the leader of 100 soldiers
- Centurions led from the front line of battle.
- And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"Mark 15:39 (NIV)
- Your son went to serve at a distant place, and became a centurion.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- A quest must be led by someone of centurion rank or higher.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- A centurion kept the entrance with a guard drawn up full armed under the beautiful marble battlements.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- Noble men and noble women, ambassadors and centurions, ladies and tradeswomen, and babies who have never seen a cow.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The Christ was loaded down with chains, and the centurions were really laying on the stripes.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- Octavian's fellow centurion of the First Cohort, Mike Kahale, stood to one side with his arms crossed, glowering with obvious displeasure.Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
- Two centurions leaned casually on their javelins, chatting with a tall skinny blond guy in a purple toga.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- The centurion .... commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- Blackcliff's subject masters, the Centurions, will be watching.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- He became hated by the whole world, and also feared by those he had around him, to such an extent that he was murdered in the midst of his army by a centurion.Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
- All of this appeared in Centurion bold type—already antiquated in 1917—with delicate hairlines separating seven columns and subheads in bold serif relief.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- The ships included the Centurion and the Chatham, of 50 guns each, the 40-gun Phoenix, and the 30-gun Greyhound with General Howe on board, in addition to the 64-gun Asia.David G. McCullough -- 1776
- "And then," Arturo continued, his words coming pacifically from the turtle-like jaw under his centurions face and sparkling black eyes, "most accountants like games, and to them their work is a game.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Centurions!Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- A fissure opened in front of the dracaenae, and a dozen undead warriors crawled from the earth-horrible corpses in military uniforms from all different time periods–U. S. Revolutionaries, Roman centurions, Napoleonic cavalry on skeletal horses.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- "Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, 'Caesar wills that you die.' but it was a legate a latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, 'His holiness requests you to dine with him.'Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- | | | | | | Health and Fraternity, | | | | | | u og a fe L. | +——+ It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital letters: quinturions, centurions, decurions, eclaireurs [scouts], and the sense of the letters: u og a fe, which was a date, and meant April 15th, 1832.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
centurion = a Roman soldier who is an officer
centurion = a Roman officer — often thought of as the leader of 100 soldiers
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